For example, a cancer drug might be approved because it causes tumors to shrink, not because its manufacturer can prove that patients live longer after taking it.

举例而言，一个癌症药因为能使肿瘤变小就可能被批准使用，而不是因为制造商能证明病人服用之后活得更长。

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While patients taking vemurafenib do very well, Schuchter said the drug stops working after about nine or 10 months.

病患服用vemurafenib后效果良好，舒特说服药9-10个月药物才失效。

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After 10 weeks of drug therapy, mice taking rifapentine and moxifloxacin tested negative for active TB and remained so when retested three months later.

药物治疗10周后，服用利福喷丁和莫西沙星的小鼠对肺结核显示阴性结果，三个月之后显示同样的结果。

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Researchers studied more than one hundred fifty patients whose condition had failed to improve after taking at least one drug.

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More than 40 people across the UK and Ireland are believed to have died after taking the drug.

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Police have urged heroin users in south Wales to get advice and help after two men collapsed after taking the drug.

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However, he warned that the results should be interpreted cautiously as not only were the study groups small, but there was possibly an increased risk of the patient being the source of further infections after taking the drug.

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